The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-07

| building in the old Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at
/ Tarrytown. The tomb will cost $50 000
| 1T is reported on good authority that Victoria
Notwithstanding Hulskamp is now in a con-
vent in Italy, where she will remain for some
| years. 1.-THE world forgetting, and by the world
| forgot
MIR. MARION CRAWFORD has bought the villa
at SAINT Agnello di Sorrento, overlooking the
bay of Naples which he has occupied during
the past three summers, and called it the Villa
Crawford.
CAMP-MEETING JOHN ALLEN was once chap
lain of the Maine Legislature and one day
prayed that the legislators might be enabled to
''eondense their deliberations and stop when
they had go. through.
WILLARD FILLMORE ToMPKINs, grandson OF
Willard Fillmore, once President of the United
States lives in New York. He is proprietor of
many retail grocery stores, and is reputed to be
worth at least $500, 900.
RUSSELL SAGE takes his keenest pleasure in
riding and the ownership of horses, but he never
buys horse outright. He follows the custom
of country horsemen and of his rustic
youth and Swaps" or trades for every horse he
gets
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND writes all his letters
and addresses with his own hand. He tried die
tating to a stenographer some time ago, but
found that il bothered him and that he could
do his work much more satisfactorily in the good
old fashioned way.
CHARLES DICKENS, JR, who is to lecture in
this country, is about as unlike what the public
would expect in son of Boz as a parlor match
IS unlike comet. His round face and rather
feeble cast of features are scarcely redeemed by
large pair of spectacles, and in his delivery he
has neither physical nor dramatic power.
Mrs. THIRKIELD of Atlanta. Ga, has joined
the Salvation Army and is wearing "war-cry"
satchel suspended by Good is love- strap. The
woman has deserted her husband who is i'll with
typhoid fever, and three little children, one of
whom is also i'll. The oldest child is just six
years of age. In the same house lies Mrs.
ThIrkield's sister at the point of death.
THE hospitable Americans at Newport have
been much worried for fear they would not be
able to pronounce correctly the name of the
Duke about whom many of them are now
fawning. Finally some energetic young woman
asked His Grace how to pronounce ''Marlbo-
rough" Since that time those who wish to do
the right thing by the degenerate of degen-
crate ancestors speak of him as "Marbro."
MRS. ALFRED G. SHELDON of New Haven,
has Yale diploma dated 17G4. It was in that
year issued to her great-grand father, Hezekiah
Ripley, and bears the names of President Thomas
Thomas Ruggles, Elnathan Whitman and Moses
Dickinson, members Of the college corporation
There were twenty eight members in the class
of 1I64 and Mr.. Ripley, who died in 1885, was
the last survivor.
ROBERT GARRETT is about thirty seven years
of age. He has no fondness for an executive
position and cannot bear to be chained to a desk.
He is devoted to the pleasures of society and he
likes to frequent drawing -rooms clubs aud ball
rooms. He is extremely attentive to his dress
and IS always attired In the height of fashion
He would still be worth many millions if he had
never owned a dollars worth of stock in the
Baltimore g Ohio road.
THERE are 400 Mormon bish ops in Utah. 9. 423
priests, 2.947 teachers and 1854 deacons. Salt
Lake City is divided into wards of eight or nine
each ward. Under him there are two teachers,
whose business it is TO learn the employment
and income of every resident of the ward and
report the same TO the bishop Then the bishop
collects the tenth of mans income and
turns it in to the church authorities. The same
complete system exists all over the Territory.
As the bishops get a good commission their
collections they make very Jealous and persist
ent collectors.
MISS LUCY SALMON. the new professor of his
tory at Vassar College, is with
future before her. Her book, 1.-THE Appointing
Power Of the President is the clearest mono.
graph that has appeared on that difficult subject,
and is noteworthy production for of the
non-politcal sex. Miss Salmon is graduate of
Michigan University and fellow of Bryn Mawr
College. It is curious, by the way, that
of the ten fellowships open to competition in
that woman's college are held by graduates of
the co-educatonal schools. Miss Salmon is q
fine-loodine blonde. with a clear open face,
physically and mentally healthy and steadfast
looking.
AN autograph letter from Coleridge, sold re-
Gently in London, and addressed to Joseph Cot
tie. the publisher, in 1914, contains the follow
ing: ''You have no conception of the dreadful
hell of my mind, and conscience, and body. You
bid me pray, and do" etc. AGAIN. in May of
the same year, he writes 1.-THE temptation
which have constantly to fight against is
fear that if humiliation and the possibility OF
heaven we're offered to my choice I should
constitutional idiosyncrasy; for when a mere boy
/ wrote these lines
40 what wonder seems the fear of death.
Seeing how gladly we all sink to sleep,
Babes, children, youths and men,
Night following night for threescore years and ten.
A NEW book on Scotland tells the story of
Mr.. Durham and his servant. who gave warning
because he could not bear to be pointed at az
s'the man who had the lsein' MASTER" His re-
buke was taken in good part, and he was in
structed to give bis master a nudge when he
thought a story a little-exaegerated. The story
proceeds: met long afterward Mr.. Durham was
entertaining at dinner a party of friends when
he proceeded to describe some foxes he had seen
abroad, with tails twelve feet long. Peter gave
his master nudge when Mr. Durham remarked
to his guests: No, am wrong Not twelve;
they were six feet long Peter administered
second nudge 'Ah, we'll, refiecting,' said Mr..
Durham, 4 believe the animals tails were not
beyond three feet long Peter yet nudged, when
Mr.. Durham turned sharply round. and, address
ing his attendant, SAID gravely, Peter, II re-
duce the tail further the story's gomez
THE Baltimore American tells the following
remarkable story, which comes from one of the
seaside watering resorts. It is reportad that a
young lady of excellent family has developed a
species of insanity of a novel character. She has
given lately great deal of her time and atten-
ton to amateur photography and had become
possessed with the insane idea
that she could produce the effects
of photography everything. The
other morning she put a handsome dress in
front of the camera, and placed herself in pura
naturabilis behind it. She then started out.
leaving her room to take a walk. fully possessed
with the idea that she had photographed the
dress on her own charming !person Unfortu-
naue1y, however the first person in the hall she
met was of the bell boys, who thor
oughly frightened that he gave a scream, and
darted down the stairs. Assistance
called, when the young lady was taken back to